Warren Ellis's Blog, page 365

I have a Tumblr, as previously mentioned. I use it as a notebook. Eventually (when my hosting company upgrades its SQL), my jottings in that online notebook will be ported here as a daily digest. And they are jottings, I’m not taking care to do anything like form sentences or follow grammar for the most part. I have the Tumblweed app open in my menu bar and I can just pop it and quickly jot something in as an idea passes through the void that is the front of my brain.

Like I say, within a week or

Off to London for the P.E.A.R. magazine launch event.  Nothing will happen here until after midnight.

I am fucking delighted to note that Julian Cope’s immense and marvellous ODIN is available as a paid download from Head Heritage Merchandiser. I’ve played my ten-year-old copy of the original CD to death, and it has a habit of wandering around the house and disappearing for weeks at a time. (It is in fact currently missing from my desk, despite having been played just two weeks ago. I suspect shenanigans. However, I’m quite happy to give M’Lud Yatesbury another seven quid.)

ODIN — more correctly

Talking about geoengineering to slow down Our Eventual Doom in the WSJ of all places.  Big media month for Jamais, as he’s in The Atlantic this month too… downside: no shot of him in his Doctor Cyclops glasses leering down at a burning planet, little people running around on fire, etc

May just have reinvented music journalism for the early digital 21C, in partnership with print newspaper The Observer. Clever, clever bastard.

I’ve had a Tumblr account for years, but only recently reactivated it, having finally found a use of sorts for it. In the period I wasn’t paying attention, the Tumblr team have created a thing called Tumblarity: a number derived from your recent activity on your account. If you get a new follower, you get a certain number of tumblarity points. If you reblog something from another Tumblr user, your tumblarity goes up. And so on. If you leave your Tumblr unused for a while, your tumblarity st

Reader Dan Kelly has started putting together a Google Maps view of the various Whitechapel locations of FREAKANGELS.

Whitechapel thread here: Mapping Whitechapel.

Augmented reality, geocaching and Google Maps API tools, all wrapped up in a children’s book from 1948:

Via Designtumblelog.

Sorry it’s been such a deadarse week here on the Warren Ellis Channel. Mad workload means the most I’m managing is jotting down half-formed notes on my own Tumblr that I will eventually turn into things that look like coherent blogposts.